Typical striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys striatus)
By: New York Zoological Society
From: Walker’s Mammals of the World
1964
Jesus died for me? That’s manipulative
And he didn’t stay dead either so add gaslighting I guess
Chocolate guy has learned how to make corrugated cardboard. he is a powerful eldritch being who cannot be contained. The only reason we seem to be alive is because his interests are exclusively in the making of delicious lifelike desserts.
PACKING TAPE?? fucking PACKING TAPE??

John Brosio, “Closing the Deal”, 2012
Oil on Canvas, 43 x 38cmJohn Brosio (American, 1968)
I feel this. I got way too into the semiotic standard from Alien. The idea of a languageless communication through design is fascinating. I once saw a documentary about the design of toxic waste dumps, and the trouble they had coming up with ways of communicating with possible future generations that might have lost our language and all history, that it wasn’t a place of worship, and that nothing good would come from spending time there. Later I worked on factory floors, and learned about things like alarm fatigue.
The language of design is fascinating, and all around us.